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I've had an idea for a long time, what would happen if you had some silent tabs running alongside you, randomly opening and closing browser pages, clicking etc - acting like a human but with the purpose to create noise. It would also involve submitting articles and social media posts using your name, to make it harder to be found on search engines with any real clarity. If anyone knows of a project like this please let me know of it. I'm aware it would break all kinds of ToS but all is not fair in this privacy game.




Thank you! There is only one feature that keeps me on Chrome (I've moved most of my browsing to Firefox and Opera), and that's the built-in translation as I'm on a lot of non-english websites during the day. This will make my daily Chrome use a lot more enjoyable.


The built-in translation works on Chromium and might work on some of the privacy oriented Chromium based browsers as well. I normally use Firefox and use Chromium when I want this feature.


I tested a few Chromium browsers today with privacy features and the translation feature is disabled. I will try raw Chromium - I'm curious how buggy it is to run it straight off dev.

Epic: translate is disabled Iridium: 403 on using inline translate Chromium: 403 on using inline translate

API key errors abound. After wasting way too much time I went back to Opera and finally found inline translation with this extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-translate/a...

Now everything is well. Thanks for your tip however!




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